Christopher Robinson (bishop)

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Christopher James Gossage Robinson (10 June 1903 – 24 February 1988) was Bishop of Lucknow"New Bishop of Lucknow" in "'Ecclesiastical News", The Times, 11 September 1947, p. 6. from 1947 to 1962, when he was translated to be the Bishop of Bombay until his retirement in 1970.

Robinson was born into a distinguished familyHis father was an Archdeacon of Surrey New Archdeacon of Surrey in Ecclesiastical Intelligence The Times, Monday, 13 April 1908; pg. 7; Issue 38619; col A
His brother, the economist Austin Robinson Profile of Edward Austin Gossage Robinson in Business Diary The Times, Monday, 9 March 1970; pg. 23; Issue 57813; col B and educated at Marlborough College and Christ's College, Cambridge,Who was Who 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 {{ISBN|0-7136-3457-X}}

After graduating in 1926 he went to India to be on the teaching staff of St Stephen's College, Delhi. He returned to England in 1929 to be ordained.

His first appointment was as a Curate at St Mary's Portsea, after which he returned to India, where he was a leading light in the Cambridge Mission to Delhi, (Vicar of St James's Delhi,[http://www.igougo.com/attractions-reviews-b336377-Delhi-St_James_Church.html Church details] then of St Thomas'd New DelhiCrockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 {{ISBN|0-19-200008-X}}) until his ordination to the episcopate.

He retired to Delhi in 1970. He had never married.

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